XMLhack IETF newsDeveloper news from the XML communityXpath1() scheme published as an IETF Internet-Draft- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Simon St.Laurent has announced an IETF Internet-Draft defining a XPath based scheme to be used in the XPointer framework that is simpler than the xpointer() scheme and more powerful than the shorthand or element() scheme.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1812 XML and the IETF: Making the case for RELAX NG- (Found July 8, 2008 ) In a message to the ietf-xml-use mailing list, James Clark makes a detailed case for giving RELAX NG at least "equal billing" with the W3C XML schema language as a recommended formalism in IETF protocols using XML.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1677 New XML Signature draft offers alternate algorithm- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The W3C and IETF have published XML-Signature XPath Filter 2.0, which offers "a new XML Signature transform to facilitate the development of efficient document subsetting technologies that interoperate under similar performance profiles."http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1627 IETF draft: "Registration of xmlns Media Feature Tag"- (Found July 8, 2008 ) Simon St. Laurent has announced an updated IETF draft prescribing a MIME media feature tag for XML content, which indicates the relevant namespace or namespaces in the transmitted document.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1504 URI activity picks up- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The W3CIETF URI Planning Interest Group has published URIs, URLs, and URNs: Clarifications and Recommendations 1.0 as a Note, while Tim Berners-Lee suggested that "Content-Types should be defined by URIs".http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1384 XML-Signature to Proposed Recommendation- (Found July 8, 2008 ) The W3C (jointly with the IETF) has released XML-Signature Syntax and Processing as a Proposed Recommendation.http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=1346 |